Wednesday 21 November 2012

Advantages Of Using Agile Governance

By John Riteorine


Governance is a vital ingredient in all projects and businesses. Traditionally, it is utilized to describe the rules and processes needed to ensure a successful project. However, through time, many have noticed that this old-school governance no longer works because it emphasizes the use of time sheets, costs, and schedules and not the more important issues like project benefits, risk management, stakeholder involvement, quality, scope, and objective control. This is the reason why it this idea of coupling the concept of agile with governance emerged.

Just the thought of it is seems so weird and impossible. However, it's a combination that would result to a win-win situation.

Agile Governance is simply characterized by a number of factors. First thing is that it is the key building block for an Agile Enterprise. Also, it emphasizes on the integration of value and alignment of agile strategy with agile execution. Aside from that, it serves as a driving force for the agile strategy and business success. Agile governance is also more focused on the predictable delivery like training, coaching, certification, engineering best practices, tools and a lot more. Another principle is that it holds innovation of high importance. Moreover, it is actually described as an extension of SoS and CoP concepts and involves of PMO, business and CoP Leads.

The same as any type of governance, agile governance is founded also on concepts. These are the three basic concepts of agile governance that may or may not be applied all at once. The number of concepts an organization will apply is dependent on how hard the project is and what type of organization is involved. The three concepts are the development and creation of communities of practice or CoP, the use of virtual process management and the utilization of proxy for product owners.

Basically, agile governance is more interested on making the agile process more accessible without forgetting integration and the various tactics of the project or company. When this point is reached, agile governance has already served its purpose of putting together management and IT. It is a combination that would lead to better results and lower costs for the company and the project.




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